The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-20
FACT AND FANCY.

Winemaking is under way In California.
Moody is conducting revival meetings IN
Montreal.
One hundred ladies are students at the Cor
nell university.
Virginia winter apples are scarce, and are
selling high already.
New York is to spend s256, 900 In beautify-
Ing Morningside park
BY the last Of October 1000 men will be al
work in the Brooklyn navy yard.
The packing of Mexican mackcrel is becom'
ing a big industry on the gulf coast.
The Lick telescope is expected TO be ready
for work at the beginning OF the new year.
OF the AGA federal offices in Massachuseti.
Sumatra has flower which grows to nin'
feet In circumference and weighs fifteen
pounds
Good telegraph operators are offered bv the
Mitkiewicz Barker syndicate $500 month for
their services in China.
The famcas case of Myra Clark Gaines
comes up again in the United States supreme
court AT us next sittlDg.
The board of trade of Aberdeen, Miss, are
being urged to take steps looking to place a
boat In the river al that place.
A bear at Carter's ranch, about five milc'
from Mangus, New Mexico, mas killed one
hundred goats within few weeks.
The remains Of a boy who was drowned nine
years ago we're found in England recently,
and recognized by his boots aud tooth.
Temecua, made famous by Mrs. jackson In
Ramona" is said TO be the only place In
southern Caiforis that is at n stapdstill.
A piano company in New York city is doing
great business by offering to give music
lessons on the instrument to each purchaser
The robbers OF the Atlantic and Pacific
trains have been traced into Tontc basin,
Arizona, but there 10 no definite further clcw.
One Of the boasts OF an interior town In
Florida is that II can show up more people TO
meet trains than any place Of its size In tn,
south.
The decision OF the Baltimore jud &c that .
husband is not liable for . wife's debts will
probably start a matrimonial boom In the
monumental city.
A Maine man who doesn't want to be
bothered with baggage when he goes travel
ing takes an extra collar, and carries thai
under the swentband In his hat
Miss Nellie Shaw aud Mrs /. P. Longfellow
held the reins In horse trot at Maine fair
Miss Shaw's trottcr won In 3:42, but the com
mittee divided the purse OF 81 evenly.
Negotiations are on foot for a colony OF ten
thousand Germans from Chicago TO set1le OF
hundred acres on what is known as Storms
ranch. between Colfax and Grass Valley, New
Some OF the vincyardists about Santa Rosa
Cal, are dissatisfied with the prices paid for
grapes and claim that the winc-mskers have
entered into a combination to keep the prices
down.
The American flag Is TO be raised on the
capitol at Sacramento, Cal. every day after
the expiration " the time II has been ordered
at half-mast In respect 10 the memory Of Tho
late Gov. Bartlett.
A pair of rubber hands have been attached
by a Newark y. j., doctor, to the wrists Of
young Walter Alexander. whose hands were
cut of by coming in contact with the msclrin
cry Of a rubbcrworks
The new state capitol OF Texas will he com
peied by next June The state paid for the
building in land valued at t3.0O0O0 The
contractors have already made over <1,0oo.0W
profit on their bargain.
II only cost the cattle commission VI Maine
ssh 40. the amount paid to the owners oil
animals killed to get rid Of all cases, so far a.
known, Of contagious diseases among the
domestic animals OF that state